© AP“Let this be a warning: If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars,” Bondi said in a statement.
"The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," Bondi said in a statement.
"Let this be a warning: If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars," she added.
The defendants — whose cases are being brought in Colorado, Oregon and South Carolina — are accused of using high-powered weapons and explosives to destroy property belonging to the Elon Musk-owned car company, which has been targeted in recent weeks over his role in the Trump administration.
© DOJA Tesla dealership was vandalized in Loveland, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2025.
Lansky is charged with unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm.
In Colorado, Lucy Grace Nelson, 40, is charged with malicious destruction of property after allegedly trying to light Tesla cars on fire at a dealership in Loveland, 45 miles north of Denver.
Investigators say Nelson spray-painted "Nazi cars" across the vehicles before tossing Molotov cocktails at them. She was released on $100,000 bond a day after her arrest in February.
Finally, Daniel Clarke-Pounder, 24, is accused of arson of property in interstate commerce after he allegedly vandalized Tesla charging stations in Charleston, SC earlier this month with profane anti-Trump rhetoric, then torched them.
According to authorities, Clarke-Pounder scrawled "F — Trump" and "Long live the Ukraine" across the charging stations before throwing five Molotov cocktails at them, with one of the homemade bombs lighting the suspect on fire before he put himself out.
© Hal Sparks via StoryfulFive Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 18, 2025.
Despite Bondi's rhetoric, none of the standing charges qualify as "domestic terrorism," and it is unclear whether the AG will elevate them.
President Trump has been outspoken about hunting down the people targeting Teslas across the country - and has called them domestic terrorists when speaking about them.
"I'm going to stop them," the president said March 11 after buying a Tesla himself to show support for Musk and the company. "We're going to catch them, they're bad guys."
"We're going to catch you, and you're going to go through hell," he added.
Reader Comments
Conservatives make more believable Nazis anyway, and they'll be more than happy to take out the trash when that day comes. They'll make sure of it. White conservatives are past sick of it already, but they just don't feel physically threatened by it enough...yet.
But, I am certain the liberals will continue to be encouraged down their path into depravity, perversion, and violence until they think we are all ready and the levels of tension are proper obscene, and then there will probably be a big scripted mass-casualty event that is blamed on liberals that finally gets conservative boots out the door.
Then it's full color Nazi horror, door to door, in the name of nationalist purity, complete with concentration camps, murder parties, summary executions, and our own trains to perdition. It will be our "Patriotic duty."
We are already experiencing a sanitized version of this. Genocide has apparently already been de-criminalized, and we have a massive off-site prison in Venezuela, to accommodate the national purity agenda that has already begun...they do accept Americans too, I hear. It's not just for illegals. We also already have door knockers raiding civilians too (ICE). The machine is already up and running.
'the days of committing crimes without consequence have ended.'
'we're going to catch you and you're going to go through hell.'
indeed.
one thing is clear:
as the future unfolds, we're going to need a bigger landfill.
and a lot more cemeteries.
have a nice day.
ned,
out